We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Sophos Cyberoam UTM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"We have found it to be very reliable and that's why our teams and various users in our company use it as our main firewall every day."
"We use the filtering feature the most. It has filtering and inbuilt securities. We can create customized rules to define which users can access a particular type of site. We can create policies inside the firewall."
"The initial setup of Fortinet FortiGate was straightforward."
"The usage in general is pretty good."
"It's very good and very stable for businesses. It works very well."
"The web filtering facility and application control are the most valuable features from the point of view of our clients. The VPN feature is also quite popular amongst our clients. Two-factor authentication is one of the good features in Fortinet. These features are important for the current scenario of security. Security has become a necessity nowadays. With cyber-attacks becoming more common, protecting an organization's data is one of the major tasks. It is also very stable and scalable, and it is very straightforward to configure. Their technical support is also good."
"The main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring."
"The management console is pretty simple, so anyone who understands networking can initially deploy the solution."
"The antivirus protection or malware protection has been great."
"The features I find most valuable is the VPN and the fact that we can apply our policies to the program."
"The most valuable feature for us is the ability to offer firewall support to our clients."
"Good identity fire walling, malware protection and application control features."
"When you are sending information to an external email address, Barracuda can warn you when you are trying to access a private or personal email, or trying to upload information and not allow you to do that."
"Their GPS possibilities and the security that it has, especially the SD-WAN functionality, is very good."
"Scalability is good; the company wants to be able to handle large customers."
"Easy integration with some other systems like LDAP or Active Directory to manage other permissions and the division of external access and internal access."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"There are plenty of features that are valuable in the Sophos Cyberoam UTM. We use all the features, such as email Security, firewall rules, web server security, web devices, web protection."
"The best feature is the flexibility the product offers, in terms of remote access. What we had before was a decentralized mechanism in our organization, but after having this product we were able to get the remote locations into the same LAN. We were able to control the bandwidth and were able to take virtual access of those machines and give them the support, as and when required."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM is used for perimeter security, web filtering, intrusion prevention and as a VPN."
"The solution works perfectly without any users."
"The port forwarding is good."
"The most valuable feature is the IPSec forwarding."
"Cyberoam UTM's most valuable feature is that it can be configured any way you like."
"It could use more templates for third-party site-to-site VPN setups other than FortiGate and Cisco."
"Improvement is needed in the Web Filter quotas to restrict users with allocated quotas."
"It should provide better visibility over the network and more information in the form of reports for the end users. Its installation should also be easier."
"There could be more integration between the logging and analytical platforms to make it more seamless and integrated."
"The initial setup and configuration are not intuitive and require training."
"The scalability could be better."
"The sniffing packets or packet captures, can be simplified and improved because it's a little confusing."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"Technical support used to be at a very high level but it is now a bit less so."
"We would like to see a solution that is focused on container deployment, which is very important right now."
"The features are a bit limited compared to other vendors."
"The biggest downside is that it is quite an expensive product."
"The administration UI could be better. It should also have better application detection policies."
"The biggest issue that I have with this solution is that it is not super intuitive. Once you know what to do, things make sense, but you can't just open the program and start doing things. It would be great if there was a little bit more guided usage inside the program."
"Barracuda CloudGen Firewall should work a little bit more with the logs so that, in our company, we can generate a little bit more reports and get a bit more statistics, which would be fine for us."
"To start working with spam, it takes a while because the product has to see that multiple emails are coming in with all the spam. If it could reduce that amount of time, then we would reduce the amount of users who are receiving spam."
"The reports need to be more detailed and granular."
"Cyberoam configuration is done through the browser, which is one of the places that viruses spread."
"The reporting should be improved as well as the backup."
"Cyberoam UTM needs to have more certifications with third-parties, such as NSS Labs."
"I would like to see a better content management pack and also the website searching should be better."
"The data support response time should be improved."
"I don't know whether this will be included in an upgrade, but I would like to get the user utility, like seeing where the users are using more of the data."
"There needs to be more documentation that users can access to help them understand the solution or troubleshoot as necessary."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 7th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 81 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Barracuda CloudGen Firewall writes "Feature-rich, robust, and easy to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Cyberoam UTM writes "Stable and has a straightforward setup; reporting is fast and easy". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos UTM, Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Untangle NG Firewall. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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